[Idle-dev] [Python-Dev] IDLE contributors and committers

[Michael Foord]

On 17/07/2010 12:47, Steve Holden wrote:
> On 7/17/2010 7:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:05:22 +0300
>> Tal Einat<taleinat at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library.
>>>
>>> I have been using IDLE since 2002 and have been doing my best to help
>>> maintain and further develop IDLE since 2005.
>>>        
>> I haven't seen any conclusive statement or action to this thread.
>> Without being an IDLE user myself (for good reason), I think that if
>> IDLE should stay, active contributors such as Tal should be given commit
>> access and enough free rein to maintain and improve it.
>>
>> Otherwise there's no reason to continue claiming that IDLE is important
>> while discouraging such people's contributions. The current situation,
>> where several core developers support IDLE's continued inclusion but
>> none actually cares for the issues and patches in the tracker, is
>> schizophrenic.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antoine.
>>      
> +1
>
> There's no reason why Tal should be obstructed in his goal of making
> IDLE at least acceptable again. It's fairly obvious thaat there aren't
> any committers who have both the inclination /and/ the time to do this,
> so adding Tal (and other interested parties) as a developer makes a lot
> of sense.
>    

Guilherme's *existing* patch for IDLE looks like it improves it a great 
deal, at the cost of potentially requiring Tk 8.5 (?). Can this just be 
committed?

https://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/Screenshots

Michael Foord

> regards
>   Steve
>    


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